Ashoka halwa / Moong dal halwa

Ashoka halwa is a wonderful dessert or sweet to have...it's a traditional sweet made in lot of houses during festive season.It is made of moong dal, an easy recipe tooo. Try this yummy halwa .. 

Ingredients:

• Moong dal - 1cup
• Sugar-11/2cup
• Ghee - 1/4 cup
• Cardamom powder- 1 tsp
• Yellow food color - required
• Milk- 1/4 cup
• Water

Method:

• Wash and cook moong dal with water in pressure cooker for 7 whistles, until it becomes like paste.
• Heat a pan, add sugar and water 1/2 cup and allow it to dissolve and it becomes little sticky.
• Take the cooked dal and mix it well. If it is not boiled well. Grind them into a paste in mixer.
• Heat another pan, add few tsps of ghee, add the moong dal paste and fry till the moong dal absorbs the ghee. 
• Now ad the milk and allow it to boil till no lumps are formed. 
• Add sugar syrup little by little and stir continuously. Check that there are no lumps.
• Add the food color and stir well.
• Stir occasionally till the paste becomes thick.
• Add ghee little and stir well.

• When all the excess milk and water is absorbed and it came to the halwa consistency, pour the remaining ghee and mix .
• Add cardamom powder and mix well.

Yummilicious halwa is ready to dig...